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单词 to fold up
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to fold up
a. transitive. To arrange (a piece of cloth, a surface, etc.), so that one portion lies reversed over or alongside another; to double or bend over upon itself. Also with in, over, together. Often contextually implying repeated action of this kind. to fold up: to close or bring into a more compact form by repeated folding.
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the world > space > relative position > folding or folded condition > fold [verb (transitive)]
foldc888
lapa1300
plya1393
turna1400
doublec1430
plaitc1430
overfold?1440
plet?a1500
flipe1530
upfold1600
enfold1605
plicate1654
tuck1835–6
the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > close or shut [verb (transitive)] > by folding together
to fold upc888
shut?a1366
to do to1562
to make up1629
to shut up1833
the world > space > extension in space > reduction in size or extent > reduce in size or extent [verb (transitive)] > fold up or roll up
wrapa1375
roll?a1425
wind?1523
to roll together1525
to roll up1530
fold1561
to wind up1590
furdel1594
to fold up1621
uproll1623
furla1657
telescope1844
concertina1891
accordion1897
c888 Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. xli. §3 God scipstyra ongit micelne wind hreose ær ær hit weorþe, and hæt fealdan þæt segl.
OE Riddle 26 7 Mec [a parchment]..fingras feoldan.
a1250 Owl & Nightingale 1324 On ape mai a boc bi-halde, An leves wenden, and eft folde.
a1400 Coer de L. 3497 Whenne they hadde eeten, the cloth was folde.
1480 W. Caxton Chron. Eng. ccxxi. 213 He opened the letter that he had folden afore to geder.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Ezek. xli. 23 Euery dore had two litle wickettes which were folden in one vpon another on euery syde two.
1621 H. Ainsworth Annot. Five Bks. Moses & Bk. Psalmes Exod. xiii. 9 These foure sections..written on parchment, folden up they..tyed to the forehead.
1707 tr. P. Le Lorrain de Vallemont Curiosities in Husbandry & Gardening 87 During..the Night, they join and fold in their Leaves.
1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 305. ¶9 To open a Letter, to fold it up again.
1840 D. Lardner Treat. Geom. 44 If the triangle be conceived to be folded over.
1878 R. Browning La Saisiaz in La Saisiaz: Two Poets of Croisic 41 Our René folds his paper.
figurative and in extended use.1631 Earl of Manchester Contemplatio Mortis 79 When death hath folded vp thy dayes, all opportunitie is past.1642 T. Fuller Holy State ii. x. 26 So handsomely folding up her discourse, that his virtues are shown outwards, and his vices wrapped up in silence.1677 J. Crowne Destr. Jerusalem i. iv. 42 Every night their Bodies were not worn, But gently lapt and folded up till morn.a1822 P. B. Shelley Let. to — in Posthumous Poems (1824) 67 Let his page..Fold itself up for a serener clime Of years to come.proverbial.1622 G. de Malynes Consuetudo 90 Hee that buyeth Lawne before he can fold it, will repent before he hath sold it.
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